Bonita Vista High School | |
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Address | |
751 Otay Lakes Road Chula Vista, California 91913 | |
Information | |
Type | Public |
Established | 1966 |
School district | Sweetwater Union High School District |
Superintendent | Moisés G. Aguirre |
Principal | Lee Romero |
Teaching staff | 89.96 (FTE) [1] |
Enrollment | 2,049 (2023-2024) [1] |
Student to teacher ratio | 22.78 [1] |
Campus | Suburban |
Color(s) | Navy Blue and Gold |
Nickname | Barons |
Newspaper | The Crusader |
Website | bvh |
Bonita Vista High School (BVH) is a public four-year high school in Chula Vista, California. It is part of Sweetwater Union High School District, and offers both Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate classes. [2] The mascot is a baron.
Bonita Vista High School opened in the fall of 1966 at a construction cost of $2.5 million. [3] A student committee chose the Baron mascot over a Patriot and a Crusader. [4]
In December 2005, the district school board voted to remove the senior portfolio project as a graduation requirement following student protests. [5] A co-salutatorian led students in arguing that the project lacked academic rigor, even submitting a satirical portfolio to highlight perceived deficiencies [6]
Jennifer Ekstein is a science teacher at Bonita Vista High School, recognized as the 2024-25 San Diego County Teacher of the Year. [7] [8] In April, the San Diego County Office of Education (SDCOE) and Cox Communications recognized all 51 district teachers of the year at a special event, where five winners were later selected. Highlights from the event will be featured in a 30-minute special, Cox Presents: Salute to Teachers, airing in September on Cox's YurView network (Channel 4 on Cox and Spectrum). [9]
The school placed first in Sweetwater Union High School District for the 2011 school year, with an Academic Performance Index score of 851, meeting the statewide standard and exceeding amongst other schools in the same district. [10]
In 2015, Baron athletic teams won California Interscholastic Federation championships in football and girls' tennis. [11] The football team plays games off-campus at Southwestern College. [12] In 2018 the Barons girls basketball team won California Interscholastic Federation division I championship. The girl's basketball team is one of the premier teams in San Diego County.
BVH has two competitive show choirs, the mixed-gender group "The Music Machine" and the all-female "Sound Unlimited". The school formerly had an all-male group, "Barontones". [13] The Music Machine and Sound Unlimited have both advanced to national-level competitions. [14] The Music Machine was one of the most progressive show choirs in the western United States in the late 1900s. [15] The program hosts an annual competition, San Diego Sings! [16]
Name | Grad Class | Category | Best Known For |
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Beth Accomando | Journalism | Film critic [17] | |
Greg Bell | Sports | Professional football running back for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the Canadian Football League (CFL) [18] | |
Matt Cameron | Music | Drummer for Pearl Jam and Soundgarden [19] | |
Charisma Carpenter | Entertainment | Actress, best known for her role in Buffy the Vampire Slayer [20] | |
Costa Dillon | Entertainment | Writer, co-creator of the film Attack of the Killer Tomatoes [21] | |
Hannah Flippen | Sports | Softball player for the University of Utah [22] | |
Byron Frisch | Sports | Former NFL football player [23] | |
David Garza | Sports | Paralympic footballer, Team USA [24] | |
Shirley Horton | Politics | Politician, served as California State Assembly from the 78th district. [25] [26] | |
Guido Knudson | Sports | Major League Baseball player [27] | |
Jennifer Lalor | Sports | Former soccer player and coach [28] | |
John Macaulay | Sports | NFL player [29] | |
Ramon Martin Del Campo | Sports | Soccer player [30] | |
Monica Montgomery Steppe | Politics | San Diego City Councilmember [31] | |
Steve Peace | Politics | Politician [32] | |
Raquel Pomplun | Entertainment | Playboy 2013 Playmate of the Year [33] | |
David Schipper | Sports | professional soccer player [34] | |
Scott Shields | Sports | football player [29] | |
Joel Zumaya | Sports | American baseball player |
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Vedder may get all the love, but folks don't realize the guy straddling two grunge powerhouses as the drummer for both Soundgarden and Pearl Jam was born and raised in San Diego -- he went to Bonita Vista High School -- before moving to Seattle in 1983.
It's Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, the 1978 sci-fi spoof that former Bonita Vista High School buddies John DeBello, Muir '75, J. Stephen "Steve" Peace, Muir '76, and Costa Dillon, unleashed on an unsuspecting world.
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High School: Bonita Vista High School (Chula Vista, California) '12
Shirley Horton grew up in San Diego and graduated from Bonita Vista High School.
I attended Robert E. Lee Elementary School in Paradise Hills, went to O'Farrell Junior High School, and went on to graduate from Bonita Vista High School.
As Bonita Vista High School student body president in 1971, he successfully fought administrator opposition to a rock concert by organizing student leaders.
Now, 27, the Bonita Vista High School alumnus has both figuratively and played the world's game — around the world.
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